The coronavirus may soon turn into a pandemic. Here's what that means for Australia.
"I think we're almost there," Associate Professor Senanayake said.But the bulk of the cases remain in China, where the virus originated, with 77,660 cases and 2,663 deaths.Commuters in Tokyo on Tuesday."There's certainly been some local transmission in Iran, in South Korea, in Japan, and in Italy," he said.
For the time being, the WHO is calling coronavirus a"Public Health Emergency of International Concern".like the one Australia has with China"If it's only one or two countries you're dealing with that have a concentration of the infection, perhaps a travel ban might be effective, but if it's multiple countries, it's just not plausible in this day and age when we're so connected globally," he said.
"Surge staffing and alternate models of clinical care, such as cohorting and/or establishment of flu-like clinics may need to be employed to cope with increased demands for healthcare," it says.
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